Well, Infuse Robot removes all it's robot stuff. They'd then just have magical constructs of bone/stone/wood/flesh following them. It'll function the same. Not to mention those scrolls are a little over 2000gp, and the construct only followers their commands for a little over two hours.

Pretty pricey!

I don't know if Make Whole would bring a robot back from being dead. The spell just says that in can fix destroyed magic items, nothing about bringing back dead constructs.

Plus, they'd need the caster level in order to do all that.

As for salavaging robots, you could have it be a thing of "x ammount of gold per hit die". Maybe it being based on a skill check to recover.

Edit:
Also I think somewhere in book one it mentioned how bringing back a ton of broken parts (like ripping wires and such off of machines they find) won't really sell, since all that stuff is fairly common. Robot parts can fall into that too. other then maybe a few individuals who wants them for any personal reasons.

I set up a little roulette chart for them to play, and also had 'slots' (where they just rolled dice and tried to match the numbers up) and blackjack.
Numbers were from 1-20. They could bet on single numbers, evens, odds, 1-10, or 11-20. Roll a d20, and if the number is something they betted on, they get some pay out.

For black jack, I just rolled dice (they could choose either 1d4 or 1d8). They could keep going for rolls and bust, or stop and pay out.

You could also just call for a "gambling check" to decide how much they win/lose.

While my players where there, they weren't really too interested in playing any of the games. They just took the starting gold, cashed it out and left.

For my group, they just kept pilling loot up at the clockwork chapel until they finished their job in Scrapwall.

Chessed is a bit closer then Torch, though there's good technic league presence there.

A lot of the items they pick up are usefull anyways. Potions, grenades, scrolls - lots of stuff they might as well just use.

I suppose you could allow some crafting. Maybe enchanting already masterwork weapons (depends if you decide they need a proper workplace or not). Scrolls, potions.

In my game, the party alchemist crafted a potion every day. That's only dumping 25gp (which when you have 200+ silver disks, it's not much of a dent at all), but it is something.

So in short: My group didn't craft to much, and I didn't really give them too much time to either (if they had the means besides potions). They were only in scrapwall for a couple days, spending each day exploring and messing up gangs.
BUT
Aside from a lack of proper tools or a place to work, there's nothing really stopping anyone from crafting, if you want to let them craft.

Just started book three and did the chase sequence, basing off of what Solomani had. It went pretty well!

The party caught up to her, captured her, and knocked Illaris unconscious. They bound her up with Ion tape and are heading to the ruins with her.

So, what is Illaris supposed to do? She can't escape the ion tape, so if they leave her outside the ruins as they go inside she can't do anything. She wants to take her revenge, but there's no really anything she can do.

Does she try to convince the players to untie her? Pretend to convert sides so she can get a free shot at escape? Try to go into the ruins with them and mess stuff up?

I think the first part of the adventure runs smoother if you don't have someone with technologist.

Spoiler:

It gives them a reason to seek out Sanvill, otherwise you can end up with a player being able to make any knowledge check to figure out items (happened in my game), thus invalidating any reason they have to go to Sanvill

A canny PC should be packing -some- kind of electricity damage to do some harm to it.
A well placed crit will wreck it, and so will any PC that can hit pretty decently (most anyone with a 2hander or powerattacking).

It's tanky (took a while for my group of level 2 pc's to take it) but it's not completely invulnerable. There's also nothing wrong with running away, being more prepared and coming back

If the PC's end up meeting Sanvil really late (like about the same time they rescue khonnir) and not only sell him most everything they've found, but give him detailed discriptions of everything under black hill enough to cause him to notify the technic league?

What happens if the technic league finds out about the ruins?

Heck, the PC's even offered to try bringing back a working robot to him.

How do I play his 'betrayel', if the pc's are pretty much openly giving him what he wants?

I was wondering if/where it says that increasing the stats of an NPC (say giving it a stat array that's better then Heroic) and giving it a lot more wealth then what it would normally has, increases the CR of the npc.

NPC with stats as good or better increases the CR
NPC with equipment that's over what NPC wealth chart says increases CR

*said npc's would be baddies players fight against

I'm pretty sure it does, I'm just wondering where in the book it says it does (assuming that it does).

There's a good chance I'll be playing in a game, and I need help deciding on what kind of character to play. I don't know what the party make up is, but I know it wont matter much (no one really works together in the group I'll be playing in)

It's a homebrew game, but I know some things about it.
1) It's based off of castlevania
2) there's lots of traps
3) The DM loves using spell casters with very high DC's
4) There's probably going to be undead. At least vampires for sure.
5) DM also enjoys using incorporeals
6) The less reliance on spells I need, the better. DM enjoys blanketing areas in anti-magic fields and having the baddies enjoy high saves
7) There's tons of homebrew stuff the DM uses, along with lots of odd callings, so the tighter my build is the better

So, what to play?
I kind of want to play a Paladin, but a Barbarian could be fun too.

The stats I have to work with are: 18, 15, 17, 12, 14, 16
We start at level 8

a character ive been playing with in my head uses bull rush and aoo's to trip and knock the target out of my threatened space.

basically on there turn:
*they move into my reach (10 foot)
*trip them on the aoo
my turn:
*improved bull rush them through friendlies space, for the AOO, and keep the party out of there reach. with flurry of maneuvers, that would make him crazy powerful.

Hmm... so lunge wouldn't really be needed for the extra reach on an unarmed attack. Simply bull rushing them when they come close could work too. That puts them in range of the weapon again.

Also, since Ki throw simply states "you may throw the target in prone in any square you threaten rather than it's own square... does that mean then since I'm holding a reach weapon, I could throw them into that threat range too anyways?

edit:
And with flurry of maneuvers, that could work well with the bull rush like you pointed up. Bull rush someone right next to me into reach of my weapon, then trip/disarm them.
Alternatively, I could make an unarmed trip, get two free AoOs,activate ki throw, and then make a disarm attempt. So that's three maneuvers in one full attack. (flurry of maneuvers being to make a trip and disarm, but with ki throw a trip gives me a bull rush as well).

Oops, I did mean maneuver master. Thanks for pointing it out. Darn those archetypes!

Overlooking lunge, I realized that it doesn't stack with combat patrol. Now that I think about it, since I'm not taking whirlwind attack, it really isn't all the great for what I'm trying to build. Thanks for point it out. In a way. lol.

I wasn't planning on staying in monk long enough to get the speed bonus, so the dangerously curiously idea is interesting. The monk levels were just to quickly grab the two improved maneuver feats, while snagging more skills, evasion, and other goodies.

Although I could get spring attack/whirlwind attack in a few levels. Would that be worth the two feats? Spring attack could replace lunge, and then I could snag whirlwind attack at level 10. Don't know how often I'll be able to do a lunge-whirlwind attack of trips/disarms though.

Or take improved bullrush in place of lunge, and then improved ki throw at 10. Or even replace greater trip with improved Ki throw.

How does dangerously curious let me cast spells? Or is it I get an item and the UMD it from the trait?

Thanks for the thoughts so far. The game is supposed to go up to 20 though, so there is plenty of room for more fighter feats.
Also, any ideas on weapons? Is it important to grab a weapon with the trip/disarm quality? (trip to drop the weapon, disarm to get an extra +2). I do want to pick up a reach weapon, since I can always use unarmed attacks for people that get close (or really just trip+throw them).

But then wouldn't lunge be more usefull for that. Since ki throw has to be in my threaten area, and i assume it has to be my unarmed threatened area (so not the extra from my weapon). Then I could lunge at the start, then throw them in the increased area, which then puts them back at range for my reach weapon.

Alright, so I'm thinking up of a character in a home game in case my current one dies. I always liked the Lore Warden fighter, and so I thought maybe trying it out. It'd probably end up coming in at level 9 to, although 10 isn't that far out of the question (it's always 1 level lower then what when we died).

I wanted a fighter that was able to do a little bit more then just smash faces. Such as use combat maneuvers, maybe have a few more skills, etc.

So the following build is an attempt at making a fighter (with a two-level dip in monk) that can do just that. Trip/disarm people, have a few extra skills, and still do decent damage. In the home game, we fight lots of humanoids (it's probably bout 80% of what we fight...).

Human class favored bonus would go toward an extra skill point for the fighter. So for skills I'll be able to keep stealth, acrobatics, and perception maxed through all 9 levels. I'll be able to have 2 intelligence-based skills at a respectable level. Plus then wherever I shove the extra monk skills (maybe swim/climb/ride... just in case). This isn't even accounting for any intelligence bonus.

For weapons I'm not to sure. I'd like something with reach so that I can get some really nice reach using lunge+combat patrol. But maybe just go with a say a greatsword or even a weapon with the disarm quality to get another +2 on disarms. Between lunge and combat patrol that's already 10ft of reach, and I know the party wizard would be happy to enlarge person me.

Thoughts?

To me, this lets me plenty of trips/disarms/attacks at distance before enemies even approach. Power attacking gets me a free trip attempt, and if I trip someone using my regular attack I can get a Ki Throw off. With the combat patrol and lunge I can throw them a good distance... right into range of my reach weapon (if I'm using one).
Vicious stomp for all those free attacks on tripped people (and with greater trip, that's two AoOs).
I like it, but if there's any advice on how I can make this better or improve it, or even where to take it from here, I'd appreciate it. Also on what weapon to use too.

note: Take the human's favored class bonus, which gives you an extra spell known of your lowest level. More spells! At the first two level's you're getting an extra 0 level spell, so if you instead want to take the skill point or health, go ahead.Traits are your choice.

There's a basic level 1 human sorcerer build.
Going first = getting spells out faster = combat goes smoother. A well placed color spray and end a lot.
Grease is a helpful debuff, buff, and battlefield control spell.
Alternatively you can swap our grease for magic missile, if you really want some kind of damaging spell. But there's probably going to be someone else in your group that's focusing on damage, so might as well take grease.

you get the familiar from your arcane bloodline

intimidate will help out with some social things. Feel free to invest your skill points into other skills you have though as well.

The DM keeps shoving cure potions at us so healing isn't to bad. I keep urging everyone to pool together for a wand, but the response "Well I give lots of healing potions" keeps popping around.

The Magus combo seems pretty interesting. And I do like paladins. Although I'd prefer to stay at range (Might as well take advantage of all the space, plus the DM really likes grappling/tripping stuff). Plus fighting other spell casters (mainly sorcerers, it's his favorite class) makes running up to melee a little hazardous.

A lot of times we only do a few fights each day (one fight a day happens a good amount). Although having multiple (count: 12+) fights every so often isn't unheard of. Especially when we just so happened to end up in a dungeon/tower holding lots of baddies and a couple bosses.

Alright, so I play in a homebrew game that's at the 'epic' level. 25 point buy, or roll stats (4d6, ditch the lowest).

The party consists of a half elf sorcerer/rogue, kitsune rogue, dwarf fighter/monk, and a human black mage (custom class). Optimization level in our group is low.

I'm making a back-up character for when my current one dies, and I'm looking for something that doesn't need a lot of wealth. Character level will be 6. We're far off from the wealth chart (allowed 3k gold for buying stuff at level 6), so I'm trying to make sure I can be effective with small amounts of gold.

Fights usually always taken place in large open areas (even if it's in a room), outnumbered, or facing big bad strong guy.

So, I'm leaning towards a half-elf or human master summoner. The idea being I can just summon stuff to fight for us.

Alright, this is something that constantly keeps coming up in my group.

Do you need to have a clear shot at your target in order to hit them? Say there's a bunch of allies in front of you, can I still hit a target through them? Positioning example below:

[me]----{ally]---[enemy]

or some version of that, where there's a living body between me and what I want to shoot. Do I have to move and have a clear shot of no people in between me and my target, or can I still make the shot?

I know that if you fire at someone in melee, you take the -4 penalty unless you have precise shot. So what if the position is

{me][ally][enemy] standing exactly like that. Can I take the shot, or do I have to move?

What's the rules for being able to shoot a target. I'm small sized, so does this make it harder?

the scout knife master rogue with mobile fighter would make a nice gestalt character. (all the extra feats, and by level 11 could easily two-weapon fight rapid shot the knives after a little bit of movement. Could probably have gotten the other two-weapon fighting feats to get even more attacks)

would have to keep that in mind if I ever play a gestalt character, since I don't think I'll ever really be in a game that goes to level 20 for a scout knife master rogue 9/ mobile fighter 11

Could replace fighter 1, rearrange the feats abit, and then pick it back up at level 10 to move onto being able to move and make full attacks.

That'll bring it all up to 13 character levels.
Pretty reasonable, I don't expect to play that far into the teens (this character would be for either society or a home game, and the home game i go to hardly ever makes it to even 10)

For clarity: The TWF is so I can bash with a shield in one hand, and then cast a spell in my other right?

Also I'm going with the STR bit.
I'll make a note to boost up my int.
And I'll have to look at my spells abit more.

Can I still bash with a quickdraw?

Thanks for info already.
And wow, it can get pretty pricey enchanting the shield! But could I make the spike admantite and the shield itself mithril? Since I have to enchant them separately, can the two be made out of different materials?